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How do I increase the voltage of my cpu?

michaeltbb8

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Sep 23, 2017
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My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H and my cpu is the AMD Ryzen 3 1200. I am on BIOS version F23. I wanted to overclock my cpu so I went into my BIOS and increased the clock speed to 3.6 ghz without upping the voltage and it worked successfully. I wanted to push the limits further so I decided to crank it up to 4.0 ghz. With the clock speed this high I knew I needed to increase the cpu voltage so I went into advanced voltage settings and did not find a setting to increase cpu voltage. Why is this? Is there a setting I need to change? Is the setting located somewhere else? Is there another BIOS update that I need? Does my motherboard simply just not support increasing the voltage on a cpu? I don't know. I would very much appreciate it if someone would help me. If needed, I would be glad to provide more information. Thanks in advance.
 
Solution
Gigabyte uses offsets for OC.
For example:
•Dynamic Vcore (DVID) offset @ +0.078V (1.332V HWMonitor)
•Dynamic VCORE SOC (DVID) offset @ +0.258V (1.116V HWMonitor)